Event: Anne Applebaum, a political columnist for the Washington Post and an award-winning author, will speak at Carnegie Mellon University on "Putinism: The Ideology." Applebaum also writes for Slate, the New York Review of Books, and Spectator magazine and the Daily and Sunday Telegraph in London.

Her most recent book, "Gulag: A History," won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction and is an historical narrative of the Soviet concentration camps. By using memoirs, interviews and recently opened Russian archives, Applebaum detailed everyday life inside the camps.

Applebaum was previously a member of the Washington Post editorial board, foreign and deputy editor of London's Spectator magazine, political editor of the Evening Standard and a columnist for several British newspapers. From 1988-1991, she covered the collapse of communism for the Economist. Her first book, "Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe," recounts her journey through the Soviet Union's collapsing borders. Currently, Applebaum resides in Warsaw, where she is at work on a new book about the imposition of totalitarianism in post-war Central Europe.